Cultura afro-brasileira e o ensino de Geografia: desafios e possibilidades na educação em Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

Changes in geographic science directly influence the teaching methodology in the school space. Geography, which for a long time had a colonial reproduction of science, today begins to undergo new transformations that bring the racial view of blacks on perspective as a subject and not an object. From this, education also changes their perceptions and, with the help of laws such as 10.639/03 and 11.645/08, they begin to strengthen the dialogue on ethnic-racial issues in school. Thus, this article has the general objective of understanding the challenges and possibilities that exist in the application of Afro-Brazilian themes integrated with Geography content from the perspective of teachers from the Municipal Network of Fortaleza-CE. A discussion was held on school geography and citizenship training with authors such as Cavalcanti (2019, 2024), Pontuschka, Paganelli and Cacete (2009), Barbosa (2016) and Kimura (2008). Soon after, ethnic-racial issues were also worked on at school and in the teaching of Geography from Jesus and Cunha Júnior (2020), Sousa Junior (2021), Costa (2023), Couto (2020), among others. The research was exploratory (Gil, 2008), with a qualitative approach (Flick, 2009), the procedures were to carry out a bibliographic and documentary analysis on the legislation that strengthens ethnic-racial issues in the school environment, in addition, a collection of textbooks was analyzed. After that, semi-structured interviews took place with 4 Geography teachers from the Municipal Network of Fortaleza-CE to know their considerations on the subject. It was identified that these teachers recognize the importance of African culture in Brazil, however, they still have difficulties in integrating this theme in the classroom, as they consider their training insufficient for some topics of the subject, with the request for continuing education organized by the SME of Fortaleza-CE. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to contribute to research on this theme and to observe the difficulties that still exist in the academic and school space with racial issues, especially in the state of Ceará, because in addition to the discussion being scarce, when it exists it leaves much to be desired in the way it is implemented, and that public agencies organize training that improves the treatment of these contents.